Passenger-fare collector



(No Model."

J. RING. PASSENGER. EAEE COLLECTOR.

,622. `Patmated Sept. 30, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN RING, on ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AssIeNoR on EOUR-FIETIIS To JAMES I. MCLOUGHLIN AND RROWNLEE w. rrAYLoR, BoTI-I OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. j j f PASSENGER-FARE COLLECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,622, dated September 30,1890.

Application tiled January 2S, 1890. Serial No. 338,347. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.- of the plate 4 through a curved slot 9 in the 5o Be it known that I, JOHN RING, of the city side of the case 1, and having a thumb-knob of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have in` 10, by pressure against which the plate 4 may vented a certain new and useful Improvement be moved into the vertical position indicated 5 in Passenger-Fare Collectors, of which the folby dotted lines in Fig. II. i

lowing is a full, clear, and exact description, 11 is a connecting upper plate or rod hinged 55 reference being had to the accompanying at 12 to the bottom edge of the plate 4 and drawings, forming part of this specication. hinged at 13 to the upper edge of a sliding This is a device which is for that class of vertical plate or rod 14, which is in turn hinged :o fare-collectors which are carried by the conat the lower edge v15 to a connecting lower ductor and into-which the fare is dropped on plate 16. The pintles 12 and 13 work in ver- 6o receiving the same from the passenger. tical guides 17, so as 'to hold the plate 14 in a The improvement includes a number of vertical position-that is to say, parallel with plates jointed together and so constructed and the sides of the case A. The plate 16 is hinged I5 arranged that they close the passage-by which at 18 to the upper edge of a'swinging lower the tickets or coin enter the receptacle, and plate 19, whose lower edge is hinged at 2O to 65 so that when the passage is closed at one place the side of the case. The construction is such it is opened at another, as will be fully dethat the plates 16 and 19 are moved out into scribed. The improvement also includes a the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. II, zo mouth formed with projections to interfere when the plates 4 and 11 are moved into the with the insertion of an instrument for eX- position shown in dotted lines in the same 7o traction of the fares and the extraction of any figure. In this case the fare is released from fares engaged by such instrument. the plate 4 and falls upon the plate 16, and

The points of novelty are set forth in the when the thumb-knob is released from press- 2 5 claims. ure the spring 7 throws the plates into the po- Figure I is a perspective view of the partsition shown by full lines in Fig. II, and the 75 of the fare-collector to which my invention is fare drops from the plate 16 into the receptaapplied with part broken out. Fig. II is a cle 21, which may be a bag having a neck 22 vertical section.V Fig. III is a transverse secthat slips on the lower end 23 of the case 1, 3o tion at III, III, Fig. II. and may be secured by ahasp 24 and a pad- 1 is the case, having a receiving-mouth 2. lock on the staple 25. 8o This mouth is formed with projections 2 2b 26 is a spring behind the plate 19, tending to interfere with the insertion of an instruto throw it outward when theV plate 4 is thrown ment for extraction of the fares and the eX- inward. The spring 7, however, has greater 3 5 traction of any fares engaged by the instrustrength than the spring 26, so that the parts ment. are held in the normal position shown in full 8: 3 is a pane of glass in the side of the case, lines in Fig.v II, except when pressure is through which the ticket or coin may be-exbrought upon the thumb-knob. amined. 27 is a projection below the plate 19, against 4o 4 is a swinging upper plate extendingacross which the fare impinges in descending, and

the whole width of the passage 5, but having which prevents the escape of the fare or the 9o free movement therein on a iixed pivot 6 at introduction of an instrument for removal of v its upper end. j A the fares from the receptacle 21. 28 is a piv- 7 is a spring secured to the plate 4 or to the oted plate which closes the passage at that 45 case and acting to force the plate into the point in case the instrument is turned mouth position shown in Fig. II, so as to close the downward, and thus prevents the escape of 95 passage and hold the fare in position for eX- the fares. l amination through the glass I claim as my invention- S is a fmger projecting from the lower edge 1. The combination of the case 1, having a receiving-mouth 2, the swinging upper plate 4, hinged at its upper end` and adapted to be placed in an inclined or vertical position, the connecting upper plate 11, hinged to the bottom edge of the swinging upper plate and adapted to be placed in an inclined or vertical position, the sliding vertical plate 14, hinged to the lower edge of the connecting upper plate, the connecting lower plate 16, hinged to the lower edge of the sliding vertical plate and adapted to be placed in a vertical or inclined position, and the swinging lower plate 19, hinged to the bottom edge of the connecting lower plate at its upper end, hinged at its lower end and adapted to be placed in a vertical or inclined position, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the case 1, having a transverse slot9 and a receivingnuouth 2,the pane 3, the swinging upper plate 4, having a finger 8 projecting through the slot, connect ing upper plate 11, vertical sliding plate 14, connecting lower plate 16, and the swinging lower plate 19, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the case 1, having a receiving-mouth 2, the pane 3, the projection 27, and the hinged plate 28, the swinging upper plate 4, having a finger 8, connecting uppery plate 11, vertical sliding plate 14, connecting lower plate 16, and the swinging lower plate 19, substantially as described.

.4. The combination of the easel, constructed with a receiving-mouth 2, having projections 2 2b, the pane 3, the projection 27, and the'hinged plate 28, the swinging upper plate 4, having a finger 8, connecting upper plate 11,vertical sliding plate 14, connecting lower plate 16, and the swinging lower plate 19, substantially as described.4

5. The combination, in a portable fare-collector, of the hinged plates 4 16, connected togetherand to the case by connections 11, 14, and 19, springl 7, iinger 8, and projections 2a 2b at the mouth, substantially as shown.

6. The combination, in a portable fare-collector, of the mouth provided with angular projections 2.2b, the hinged plates 4 16, the

shown and described.

J 'OHN RING.

Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, THOMAS KNIGHT. 

